Wei Wei

Wei Wei (Chinese: 韦伟; pinyin: Wéi Wěi; 17 May 1922 – 2 November 2023) born as Miao Mengyin, was a Chinese theatre and film actress. Wei Wei began her career in Huang Zuolin and Fei Mu's theatre troupe in 1942. She is best known for her leading role in the classic film Spring in a Small Town (1948), and various other films, active in Chinese cinema from the late-1940s to the 1960s, she had emigrated to Hong Kong in the 1950s, leaving the industry in the 1960's to marry. However, she also continued to work into the late 20th and early 21st century in production's, primarily in Hong Kong. Wei turned 100 in May 2022, and died in Hong Kong on 2 November 2023, at the age of 101.